India is Very Rich in Thorium Deposits. When is India Planning to Build Nuclear Power Plants Based on Thorium Fuel Cycle, Which is Virtually an Unlimited Resource of Energy for India?

Baba Atomic Research Centre is carrying out research on Thorium based power plants. India possesses pilot scale experience in thorium U-233 fuel cycle including the experience in building research reactor Kamini. However we need to master all the technologies at the front end and the back end of thorium U-233 fuel cycle at a plant scale to address all the technological problems involved in thorium utilization. We have plans to build the first thorium fuel based advance heavy water reactor with a capacity of 1000 MGW shortly.